The Call also features special panels on the cultural legacy of our hostcity, Baltimore. Thanks to our host institution, Johns Hopkins University,our keynote speaker will be Amanda Anderson. Professor Anderson specializesin Victorian literature and contemporary literary, cultural, and politicaltheory. She is the author of *The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Culturesof Theory* (Princeton, 2006). We will kick-off the Convention on ThursdayMarch 1 with a free welcoming reception and reading, featuring the works ofnovelist Madison Smartt Bell and poet Elizabeth Spire.

Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA panel;however panelists can only present one paper. Convention participants maypresent at a paper session panel and also present at a creative session orparticipate in a roundtable. Join us in Baltimore!